Re: [open-cobol-list] What do you think of JCL ?

[Kevin Monceaux]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:03:06PM -0400, Patrick wrote:

> I had skipped over chapters in my books that dealt with Cobol on IBM 
> mainframes because, well I don't have a mainframe :)

If you'd like to try a really old version of COBOL, you can use a mainframe
emulator:

    http://www.Hercules-390.eu/

Check the FAQs page for info on older IBM mainframe operating systems that
are available to hobbyists.  

> This guy hates JCL:
> 
> http://www.mainframes.com/jcl.htm

I kinda like JCL, but I work as a mainframe operator.  :-)


P.S.  It's COBOL, or CoBOL, not Cobol.



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